on to the coop!

One more question I hope you can help me with @DuckyDonna how big should the pop door be? I plan on having Swedish ducks, and maybe some Cayuga if things go well...
Hi, I don't really know what you mean by a "pop" door. Also, I might not be the best person to answer your questions because I only have runners @Cayuga momma or @CayugaJana would be more qualified than I am as far as the cayugas go. Swedish, I have no clue and can't remember who has them but I'll bet those 2 will know!
 
The youtube videos and whatever else always seys to build a door double wide. Thats not true. just lets leaves and rain in all day and takes more materials to build.

@Cayuga momma thats a perfect door, No big cayuga traffic backups yet?
Nope, lol. Maybe it's because my drake is such a gentleman to my duck or maybe he knows who wears the pants. :gig
 
Nope, lol. Maybe it's because my drake is such a gentleman to my duck or maybe he knows who wears the pants. :gig
He knows who wears the curl feather eh :gig

i do like when my pekin hears the food hit the bowl and she runs over the chickens in the door why like a steriodal football player
 
My ducks share their coop with my chickens with no issue. They use the same 1x1 foot tall door that our chickens use. We have a double sesat up where we have the main coop thats set up to have storage in the front, a chicken wire divider, and door, a big roosting area with food, and water, and nesting boxes behind that, and on top is a loft for more storage. Then we have a secondary outter coop with a larger roosting area, awning style metal roof, nesting boxes, main food container and a small 1/2x1 1/2 ft door leading to one of the two runs, and a person sized door on the opposite side leading to the other run.

Oure main coop (the one with storage) is buily using wooden plywood walls fortified using two by fours, then insulated with plastic inner walls. Theirs a nesting box we also added on the floor for our ducks. The outside was added using a large plastic sheet andextra fencing with the gate having plastic on it (during winter) as well. The opposite side where the smaller door is, was made from some old wood fencing. And believe it or not, the ducks and chickens preffer to sleep in the outter part of the coop I just described.
 
Thanks all, I still have a lot to learn about ducks! There’s not as much out there about them as there is about chickens, so I’m glad BYC and you duck gurus are here to answer my questions!!!!!
 

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